Original Star Wars to be released on DVD

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Originally Posted by grady

I think the Director's Cut is still readily available anywhere. It's one of those standard Warner Brother's titles. That was also the first DVD I ever purchased in the December of 1997.

No, there's another one. That's the why the only DVD release of the movie has no special features. They made a super-DVD of it, but the guy who controls it won't allow it to be released. And my understanding is that it has a third cut of the movie.

Basically, when they were making the movie, they went way over budget so the movie became property of their bondsman (or something like that). Apparently he hates the movie, or WB, or Ridley Scott because of conflicts they had when the movie was going over budget, so he's making it really difficult for them to release this super-DVD. I imagine he wants more points on it.

I can't recall the story of why Ridley Scott wanted to do another cut of it, but it's out there if you're curious. Anyway, this cut has never been screened for the public, nor been commercially available.